pattern

Model, example.

The wallpaper had a floral pattern.

There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.

Model, example.

Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

I write this to repeat most earnestly for myself all that she said to you and to let you know how sure I am that you will sooner or later find our cousin John a pattern of truth, sincerity, and goodness, when you will deeply, deeply grieve to have done him (without intending it) so much wrong.

Model, example.

Model, example.

Model, example.

To apply a pattern.

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

[A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

To follow an example.

Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.

To fit into a pattern.

Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically.

To serve as an example for.

Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.

"Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."

The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.